2011年4月14日星期四

TEPCO may face $23 billion in claims

12 April 2011 last updated at 07: 43 GMT Workers spray adhesive synthetic resin over the ground at the nuclear plant Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in the heart of Japan's nuclear crisis Tokyo electric power company (Tepco is) as much as 2 trillion yen either $23 billion (£ 14 billion) in claims for damages, according to JP Morgan may face.

The company has the dispute was the radiation leak crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant contain nuclear.

On Tuesday Japan's nuclear and industrial agency raised the seriousness of the nuclear crisis in the work to level 7.

Japan has live people evacuated within a radius of 20 km of the plant.

The power station was engulfed worst affected one of the earthquake and tidal wave, much of Japan on 11 March.

If the company now the nuclear crisis abstain, their shares have one of the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit taken.

More than 75% of its value lost since 11 March that hits all-time lows, TEPCO have shares.

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a central theme of damages is whether the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident is an inevitable natural disaster "
Tomohiro Jikihara quote end investors were JP Morgan through the effects of the crisis on the Unternehmensgewinn.Naturkatastrophe"

While it concerns about the huge compensation Bill may, that Tepco say face, analysts much will depend how to interpret a law for these cases.

In the Japanese law can operator of a nuclear facility of any responsibility be avoided, if the accident is a natural disaster of an exceptional character thrown have.

If the current crisis fits this classification will determine the course for Tepco, analysts say.

"A central theme of damages is whether the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident is an inevitable natural disaster," said Tomohiro Jikihara by JP Morgan.

The Japanese Government is still to decide whether it is classified the earthquake and tsunami as an extraordinary disaster.


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